(The original text contained “Sarte” instead of … Continue reading In November 1971 a sports columnist in the “Dallas Morning News” published the following instance of the message which included two French philosophers: 1971 November 10, Dallas Morning News, “Wishbone for Pros?” by John Anders, Quote B, Column 3, Dallas, Texas. Here are additional selected citations in chronological order. The punchline ascribed to Frank Sinatra, in some form, is usually preserved though a variety of other lines have been added to the joke as shown in the 1990 citation further below. The message continued to evolve over the decades and many philosophers and authors have been substituted into the template including: Dale Carnegie, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, John Stuart Mill, William James, William Shakespeare, and Bertrand Russell. In addition, one of the attributions was switched to Socrates: 1969 January 31, The News and Courier (Charleston News and Courier), (Advertisement for Joe Griffith Inc., Realtor), Quote B, Column 2, Charleston, South Carolina. The first two statements in this instance were shortened and simplified. In January 1969 a real-estate agent named Joe Griffith ran an advertisement in a South Carolina newspaper that included the tripartite message. Recently an anonymous sage has added still another message: “Do be, do be, do.-Frank Sinatra.” One fellow was inspired to write on a warehouse wall: “The way to do is to be.-Lao-tse, Chinese philosopher.”Ī few days later, a salesman wrote under that: “The way to be is to do.-Dale Carnegie.” The spelling of “Leo-tzu” was changed to “Lao-tse”: 1968 July 28, Times-Picayune, Section 2, Weekend Chuckles, (Syndicated by General Features Corp.), Quote, Column 1, New Orleans, Louisiana, (GenealogyBank) Some details were omitted, e.g., Bud Crew’s name was not given, but the graffito was nearly identical. In July 1968 this graffito tale was included in a syndicated series called “Weekend Chuckles” from General Features Corporation hence, it achieved wide dissemination. ![]() YouTube video, Title: Strangers in The Night – Frank Sinatra, Artist: Frank Sinatra, Uploaded on July 6, 2007, Uploaded by: kumpulanvideo, (Quotation starts at 2 minute 23 seconds of 5 minutes … Continue reading This distinctive and memorable stylization has sometimes been parodied. Near the end of the track Sinatra sang a sequence of nonsense syllables that could be transcribed as “do de do be do” or “do be do be do”. The phrase ascribed to the famous vocalist Sinatra was derived from his version of the song “Strangers in the Night” which was a number-one hit in 1966. Recently, says Crew, an anonymous sage has added still another axiom: “‘Do be, do be, do.’ - Frank Sinatra.” (The spelling “Leo-Tzu” is used in the original text instead of the more common … Continue readingīud Crew says that a month ago he wrote this on the warehouse wall at Bud’s Tool Cribs in Richardson: “‘The way to do is to be.’-Leo-tzu, Chinese philosopher.”Ī few days later, a salesman wrote under that: “‘The way to be is to do.’-Dale Carnegie,” The initiator was a local businessman in Richardson, Texas: 1968 January 29, Dallas Morning News, Paul Crume’s Big D, Quote Page A1, Column 6, Dallas, Texas. According to the columnist Paul Crume the graffito was created in an incremental process by three different people. Quote Investigator: The earliest published description located by QI of a graffito that conformed to this template appeared in the “Dallas Morning News” of Dallas, Texas in January 1968. ![]() Could you explore the history of this humorous scrawled message? I think this tripartite list first appeared in bathroom stalls in the 1960s or 1970s, but sometimes different authors were specified. Kurt Vonnegut? Frank Sinatra? Jean-Paul Sartre? Dale Carnegie? Bud Crew? Socrates? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: The 1982 novel “Deadeye Dick” by the popular author Kurt Vonnegut mentioned the following piece of graffiti:
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